Frailty is one of the main reasons our health system is under strain. But we should not accept it as something that just happens as you age, says the Australian expert about to lead a Lancet commission on the condition.
It could be when you reach pension age but the true point of ascending into old fogeydom is the moment someone offers you their seat on the bus. So when do you decide to get off?
The aged-care sector is headed for ‘catastrophe’ unless Labor delays its milestone reforms by at least six months, peak bodies and providers across the sector say.
The new ‘rights-based’ aged care system will be rationed, just like universal free healthcare. Promises won’t match delivery.
Mark Butler has made a rare federal intervention in the increasingly bitter feud between private hospitals and health insurers, calling for increased income from premium rises to be passed on to service providers.
Catholic Health Australia has called on Labor to subsidise rents for its staff, as it warns older Australians will pay more for care without a radical boost in government funding.
All Australians will need help as they move into older age. How will you know when it’s time for support? What are your options, and what are you entitled to?
David Shoebridge has accused Defence Minister Richard Marles of spending billions of dollars of public money on weapons companies and then looking to take up ‘lucrative jobs with them afterwards.’
Up to 2.5 million health fund members may no longer be able to use their hospital cover amid a deepening crisis over the viability of private hospitals around the nation.
Some self-funded retirees soon face an average $40k extra coming out of their own pocket.
The nation’s independent aged care overseer is urging the Albanese government to tear up parts of its planned new aged care act so that care becomes a universal entitlement for older Australians, like Medicare.
Wage rises of up to 13.5 per cent for 250,000 aged-care workers will be paid in two tranches by October next year.
Health workers says they will consider quitting if wage increases are delayed.
Linda Burney declares the voice to parliament won’t give advice on changing Australia Day, as she comes under continued questioning from the Coalition.
The new funding boost in aged care to pay 15 per cent higher wages to nurses and care workers will save some nursing homes from going under, Catholic Health Australia chief executive Pat Garcia says.
The quality of nursing homes has lifted since late last year, the new star rating system shows.
Vladimir Putin has publicly pressured his generals for successes in Ukraine as civilians restore services damaged in the latest Russian bombardment.
Ageing baby boomers could see demand for high-end aged-care surge by 9 per cent annually for the next two decades, with nursing home beds set to almost double to 350,000.
After returning to Australia to sell her home, Germaine Greer, 83, put herself into aged care last year. As Covid lockdowns came and went, she was at times ‘not a patient, but an inmate’.
Advocates for disabled Australians needing specialist care are calling out for more federal funding to increase the number of nurses.
A reality check is due any day now, and word from Canberra’s insiders is it will be a ‘rude shock’ to a reform-shy political class.
The last thing Keren McCullagh wants after losing her mobility several years ago is to be taken out of her home and put in aged care.
Australia could save billions of dollars spent on aged-care if GPs could treat patients in residential facilities, a report has found.
A nursing home where 19 residents lost their lives in NSW’s worst aged care COVID cluster has admitted it is currently in the process of slashing staff hours.
Non-drug dementia treatments deliver significantly better outcomes than pharmacological interventions, study reveals.
Australians will accept an income levy to pay for better aged care ‘if the money goes into services, not the pockets of providers’.
More than half of the people in nursing homes in 2019 had a diagnosis of one of the forms of dementia.
A blank cheque and 100,000 more homecare packages will not fix the broken aged-care system.
Income of every working Australian should be levied to fix ‘neglected’ aged-care system, royal commission recommends.
Diana Scott, 76, is one of 100,000 Australians waiting for a higher level of homecare.
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